The Pogues
2020: It’s no place for the old
The debate over Fairytale of New York is proof that 2020 is the year in which woke doctrine went into overdrive
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
The end of another prohibitionist myth
There is no good evidence that adverts for alcohol increase consumption
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Lies, damned lies, and biopics
Ridley Scott’s casual treatment of truth in Napoleon does a disservice to both history and storytelling
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right